I've never been to it before, in fact I totally forgot about this. I just punched in my zip code and this is pretty damn amazing. I was able to zoom down to a street, look at what money is going where, pull up even MORE info about the specifics. This is crazy. What are people complaining about, really?
One of the main selling points for Netbooks was that they were tiny, and could fit in your purse, shoulder bag, or carry-on bag and be taken with you on trips and vacations to check emails, update your facespace, dump camera images to upload, and basically simple tasks that you might want to do when away from home and your main PC and not have to carry a real bulky laptop around with you. Unfortunately, the new "netbooks" are as big as laptops these days, which defeats the entire idea behind them. Instead of making them SMALLER, they are going the opposite direction. By now we should have netbooks with 3" screens that go in your pocket that complete with smartphones and devices like the ipod touch. A budget OQO, basically. To me, netbooks should not be considered a netbook if the screen is larger than 8". Anything bigger and you're in portable laptop territory, regardless of processor speed.
Food plants have FDA officials on site to shut the entire plant down at a moments notice if they find tainted food put out to the public. This really is not any different. They could put government people at all these sites, but it would be far easier to just have them at the hub sites at AT&T and whatnot, which they do. This is something people should expect our government to handle, and it doesn't irk me a bit because they are supposed to look over and protect us.
This article says nothing about wastes. It said it is currently being used in the USA. If that is true, why do we have hundreds of thousands of barrels of waste sitting around? I'm all for nuclear as well, but from what I gather off the National Geographic channel, Science channel, and other assorted channels is that it is far too wasteful for use yet. Having an armored transport car cracking open and leaking in the middle of the city would make the city uninhabitable for a quarter of a million years. You can tell me all these science channels are totally wrong, but I'd like to see some links that explain it.
Terminator: Future Shock and Skynet would like to have a word with you! Two of my favorite FPSs that most games still can't compare to. They paved a lot of the way for vehicles in a FPS, great depressing storylines, it was 100% pure awesomeness.
I was kind of hoping a new one would come out with the arrival of the new movie.
It really depends. If reasonable is 0.10 per gig, then I think most of us could live with that. The ISP would still be making a profit even at that price.
Just curious, because otherwise this will pretty much cost a heck of a lot more in car depreciation, repainting costs, and the environmental impact that comes with it.
At least, a war with China or Russia. If we are at war with either, it will be nuclear, and at that point, hacking someones electrical grid would be hilariously hard to do since it wont even exist any longer. Hacking it beforehand would also be pointless because the facilities that launch the missiles are independent and off the grid regardless.
"With our enhancements to the HULC system, Soldiers will be able to carry loads up to 200 pounds with minimal effort," said Rich Russell
The logical conclusion would be to add 200lbs of armor plating to the soldier. Then they would upgrade it to 400lbs, and add more plating. Until they're finally wearing nuclear powered backpacks powering a suit that weighs close to 1000lbs and is able to resist nearly every type of hit while being able to wield ordinance that are typically mounted on top of jeeps and other vehicles.
The people at the top of the chain rarely have any sort of degree within IT. For any business. It would be a total waste of their degree being in such a position, and would probably end up making them, if anything, unqualified for the position.
You talk like 1 trillion is a lot of money. It isn't. Compared to what we will be facing over the next eight years to clean up this mess. We're talking about 4-6 trillion being spent. We all know its coming. What this stimulus bill is providing is a grain of sand of what truly needs to be injected back into the economy.
Apple already forces you to use their hardware as it is. Microsoft also forces a lot of licenses to only be used by specific machines as well. That Vista you got on your new Dell probably wont work when you swap in a new system board or buy an HP system.
I'm not really sure who can put up with all the extra fuss with wireless devices. The batteries needing to be changed so often, the lag, the extra bulk, all of it. Terrible. Wire is the only way to go for perfect response time, weight, and no headaches.
I had the same experiences as you, Vista performed terrible when I first got to "experience" it. It was on a laptop that wasn't "Vista Certified".
I recently bought a "Vista Certified" Dell, and the performance is really, really good. No, seriously, I'm like that commercial where everyone is like "Zuh!?! This is Vista!?". Take note, my other machine is an iMac, and I *love* OSX. I can say that I really like Vista. I'm really satisfied with everything I've seen in the OS. With the Yahoo Widget managers I've got it acting just like OSX's Dashboard. Even some of the widgets are the same. Vista doesn't have awesome apps like VisualHub, but I was happy to find they now have a DVD Maker, Movie Maker, etc all built in which surprisingly work just as well as iDVD and the OSX counterparts.
Long story short, Vista works GREAT (In my experience.) on "Vista Certified" machines.
This still ends up with it being Microsoft's fault. The strong point of PCs have been that you can buy your own hardware, but this is biting them in the rear. They need to test every configuration under the sun with Vista.
"I'm more being outside critical of Obama right now and trying to hold him of his promises of "change," whatever THAT meant. "
At its very core, it meant doing a 180 of what we had for the past 8 years under Bush. If you were given the choice to make that happen, these are EXACTLY who you would be putting in charge. Obama could not have made more change of what we had these past 8 years if he had tried harder. Clinton wasn't in office for the past 8 years, Bush was. We're trying to get as far from Bush as possible. Thats exactly what he has done.
I see your Limbaugh/Hannity "WHERE IS THIS CHANGE?! ITS CLINTON ALL OVER AGAIN! THATS NOT CHANGE!" - It certainly is if you compare it to the past 8 years. Durrrrrr.
Mod this up, please. It was actually an iPod.
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Story was corrected the same day it was released. He uses an iPod, what the guy saw was an iPod, not a Zune. The original headlines have all been corrected since then.
It's not the "trying to do gaming on a Mac.." it's "trying to do gaming on a completely worthless video chipset.."
This chipset is not Mac specific, a LOT of laptops use this crap, and some developers have even lamented about it possibly killing PC gaming because of it. Most people when buying new systems these days go with laptops because they're very affordable now. The only problem is they all have these crap Intel graphics chipsets that can't run any PC games worth crap.
There isn't much you can really do, either. You're stuck with it until you buy a system with better video. (Ie. Macbook Pro etc)
From everything I've seen, Microsoft is allowing people to create 3D avatars just like Nintendos Mii. They will have games and applications where many of these players can mingle together online. This isn't exactly a traditional "Virtual World" like the PSN Home or Second Life.
40GB cap a month is basically nothing. With new devices like Netflixes Roku coming out, iTunes, XBox 360 HD Movie download service, Skype, and a million more online based services this will effectively kill every single one of those.
I will be putting three Roku devices around my home to stream movies. When they go to HD, this will be three devices able to stream HD movies. We're talking 4GB a movie. Get a few people in the home watching these and we could hit a 40GB "cap" in a week on vacation, if not sooner.
Microsoft is selling HD movies from Warner Brothers. With these new caps in place, Warner Brothers will probably not be able to see HD movies over the internet. Isn't this against their interests right now?
If they want to cap internet usage, they need to realistically do it. In todays world, nearly everything is going streaming for audio and video. 40GB is simply nothing. They should offer a terrabyte per month at the very minimum.
Since those are included by default, and you can't remove that cost from the Macs, they should be added to the Dell you are comparing them to. Since we're going to try and make this an OSX machine, you'll probably want to purchase these, no?
I don't think anyone will argue that the RIAA shouldn't be upset that people are giving away their product for free. What people are upset about is that they are demanding extremely high fines that don't fit the crime. Where it should be a warning, or a small fine of perhaps $100, they are destroying peoples lives entirely. The punishment does not fit the crime, which is the problem.
Microsoft already had clauses on what machines Windows could be installed on, if the vendors could sell other OSes or not, etc. Remember they got caught and punished for it?
The same will happen with Apple. They may be told they cannot stop what hardware their OS is sold on.
Microsoft thought the same thing and got nailed for it. Apple could take this to court and find the courts find it anti-competitive and make them open up their OSX to be installed on any configuration.
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I've never been to it before, in fact I totally forgot about this. I just punched in my zip code and this is pretty damn amazing. I was able to zoom down to a street, look at what money is going where, pull up even MORE info about the specifics. This is crazy. What are people complaining about, really?
One of the main selling points for Netbooks was that they were tiny, and could fit in your purse, shoulder bag, or carry-on bag and be taken with you on trips and vacations to check emails, update your facespace, dump camera images to upload, and basically simple tasks that you might want to do when away from home and your main PC and not have to carry a real bulky laptop around with you. Unfortunately, the new "netbooks" are as big as laptops these days, which defeats the entire idea behind them. Instead of making them SMALLER, they are going the opposite direction. By now we should have netbooks with 3" screens that go in your pocket that complete with smartphones and devices like the ipod touch. A budget OQO, basically. To me, netbooks should not be considered a netbook if the screen is larger than 8". Anything bigger and you're in portable laptop territory, regardless of processor speed.
Food plants have FDA officials on site to shut the entire plant down at a moments notice if they find tainted food put out to the public. This really is not any different. They could put government people at all these sites, but it would be far easier to just have them at the hub sites at AT&T and whatnot, which they do. This is something people should expect our government to handle, and it doesn't irk me a bit because they are supposed to look over and protect us.
This article says nothing about wastes. It said it is currently being used in the USA. If that is true, why do we have hundreds of thousands of barrels of waste sitting around? I'm all for nuclear as well, but from what I gather off the National Geographic channel, Science channel, and other assorted channels is that it is far too wasteful for use yet. Having an armored transport car cracking open and leaking in the middle of the city would make the city uninhabitable for a quarter of a million years. You can tell me all these science channels are totally wrong, but I'd like to see some links that explain it.
I was kind of hoping a new one would come out with the arrival of the new movie.
It really depends. If reasonable is 0.10 per gig, then I think most of us could live with that. The ISP would still be making a profit even at that price.
Just curious, because otherwise this will pretty much cost a heck of a lot more in car depreciation, repainting costs, and the environmental impact that comes with it.
At least, a war with China or Russia. If we are at war with either, it will be nuclear, and at that point, hacking someones electrical grid would be hilariously hard to do since it wont even exist any longer. Hacking it beforehand would also be pointless because the facilities that launch the missiles are independent and off the grid regardless.
The logical conclusion would be to add 200lbs of armor plating to the soldier. Then they would upgrade it to 400lbs, and add more plating. Until they're finally wearing nuclear powered backpacks powering a suit that weighs close to 1000lbs and is able to resist nearly every type of hit while being able to wield ordinance that are typically mounted on top of jeeps and other vehicles.
The people at the top of the chain rarely have any sort of degree within IT. For any business. It would be a total waste of their degree being in such a position, and would probably end up making them, if anything, unqualified for the position.
You talk like 1 trillion is a lot of money. It isn't. Compared to what we will be facing over the next eight years to clean up this mess. We're talking about 4-6 trillion being spent. We all know its coming. What this stimulus bill is providing is a grain of sand of what truly needs to be injected back into the economy.
Apple already forces you to use their hardware as it is. Microsoft also forces a lot of licenses to only be used by specific machines as well. That Vista you got on your new Dell probably wont work when you swap in a new system board or buy an HP system.
I'm not really sure who can put up with all the extra fuss with wireless devices. The batteries needing to be changed so often, the lag, the extra bulk, all of it. Terrible. Wire is the only way to go for perfect response time, weight, and no headaches.
I recently bought a "Vista Certified" Dell, and the performance is really, really good. No, seriously, I'm like that commercial where everyone is like "Zuh!?! This is Vista!?". Take note, my other machine is an iMac, and I *love* OSX. I can say that I really like Vista. I'm really satisfied with everything I've seen in the OS. With the Yahoo Widget managers I've got it acting just like OSX's Dashboard. Even some of the widgets are the same. Vista doesn't have awesome apps like VisualHub, but I was happy to find they now have a DVD Maker, Movie Maker, etc all built in which surprisingly work just as well as iDVD and the OSX counterparts.
Long story short, Vista works GREAT (In my experience.) on "Vista Certified" machines.
This still ends up with it being Microsoft's fault. The strong point of PCs have been that you can buy your own hardware, but this is biting them in the rear. They need to test every configuration under the sun with Vista.
At its very core, it meant doing a 180 of what we had for the past 8 years under Bush. If you were given the choice to make that happen, these are EXACTLY who you would be putting in charge. Obama could not have made more change of what we had these past 8 years if he had tried harder. Clinton wasn't in office for the past 8 years, Bush was. We're trying to get as far from Bush as possible. Thats exactly what he has done.
I see your Limbaugh/Hannity "WHERE IS THIS CHANGE?! ITS CLINTON ALL OVER AGAIN! THATS NOT CHANGE!" - It certainly is if you compare it to the past 8 years. Durrrrrr.
Story was corrected the same day it was released. He uses an iPod, what the guy saw was an iPod, not a Zune. The original headlines have all been corrected since then.
So why is this still making news?
This chipset is not Mac specific, a LOT of laptops use this crap, and some developers have even lamented about it possibly killing PC gaming because of it. Most people when buying new systems these days go with laptops because they're very affordable now. The only problem is they all have these crap Intel graphics chipsets that can't run any PC games worth crap.
There isn't much you can really do, either. You're stuck with it until you buy a system with better video. (Ie. Macbook Pro etc)
From everything I've seen, Microsoft is allowing people to create 3D avatars just like Nintendos Mii. They will have games and applications where many of these players can mingle together online. This isn't exactly a traditional "Virtual World" like the PSN Home or Second Life.
I hope this isn't a preview of whats to come for the OSX version of Diablo 3.. Pretty sad.
I will be putting three Roku devices around my home to stream movies. When they go to HD, this will be three devices able to stream HD movies. We're talking 4GB a movie. Get a few people in the home watching these and we could hit a 40GB "cap" in a week on vacation, if not sooner.
Microsoft is selling HD movies from Warner Brothers. With these new caps in place, Warner Brothers will probably not be able to see HD movies over the internet. Isn't this against their interests right now?
If they want to cap internet usage, they need to realistically do it. In todays world, nearly everything is going streaming for audio and video. 40GB is simply nothing. They should offer a terrabyte per month at the very minimum.
Since those are included by default, and you can't remove that cost from the Macs, they should be added to the Dell you are comparing them to. Since we're going to try and make this an OSX machine, you'll probably want to purchase these, no?
I don't think anyone will argue that the RIAA shouldn't be upset that people are giving away their product for free. What people are upset about is that they are demanding extremely high fines that don't fit the crime. Where it should be a warning, or a small fine of perhaps $100, they are destroying peoples lives entirely. The punishment does not fit the crime, which is the problem.
Microsoft already had clauses on what machines Windows could be installed on, if the vendors could sell other OSes or not, etc. Remember they got caught and punished for it? The same will happen with Apple. They may be told they cannot stop what hardware their OS is sold on.
Pretty tough spot for Apple.